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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 3469360, member: 101855&quot;]The 40% silver half dollars were clad pieces. They had obverse and reverse layers made of 80% silver and 20% copper and a core that was 80% copper and 20% silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>Still the silver clad planchets for the Bicentennial Quarter were eight years in the offing. Unless somebody got on a time machine with one and brought it back to 1968 for coinage, there is no way that such a planchet would have been in the mint in 1968.</p><p><br /></p><p>I need to revise that ... seven years ... the Bicentennial coins were first issued in 1975.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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